Conferencia Internacional sobre dos Modelos Cosmológicos

Conferencia Internacional sobre dos Modelos Cosmológicos /
International Conference on Two Cosmological Models

Universidad Iberoamericana, Sta. Fe, Ciudad de México
del 17 al 19 de Noviembre de 2010

The objective of the international conference is to gather experts in the field of cosmology in order to explain and discuss the different cosmological models used to interpret the same cosmological data. The first day, spiral galaxy rotational velocity curves are analyzed; the second day, galaxy cluster gravitational dynamics; and the third day, the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. The principal cosmological models used to interpret these data, are the standard ΛCDM, on the one hand, and on the other hand, alternative relativistic models that have been proposed in recent years by different astrophysicists. If it were the case that radically different models could explain the data, and if no observable difference in the predictions would exist, then one would face the problem of how to decide which model is to be preferred. This question belongs to the realms of the philosophy of science, and a possible answer can be found from the point of view of Karl Popper’s representation of that discipline.

Día 1, miércoles 17 de noviembre
en el Aula Magna San Ignacio de Loyola

SPIRAL GALAXY ROTATIONAL VELOCITY

* John Auping, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México.
* Fred Cooperstock, University of Victoria, Canada.
* John Moffat, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada.
* Hans Ohanian, University of Vermont, USA.
* Davi Rodrigues, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil
* Octavio Valenzuela, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Día 2: jueves 18 de noviembre
en el Aula Magna San Ignacio de Loyola
GRAVITATIONAL DYNAMICS OF GALAXY CLUSTERS

* Jean-Michel Alimi, Laboratory Universe and Theories, Meudon, France.
* Vladimir Ávila-Reese, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
* Hans Böhringer, Max Planck Institute für Extraterrestrische Physik, Germany.
* Joel Brownstein, Utah University, Utah, USA.
* Fred Cooperstock, University of Victoria, Canada.
* Philip Mannheim, University of Connecticut, USA.
* Tejinder Singh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Día 3: viernes 19 de noviembre
en el Auditorio Crescencio Ballesteros Ibarra
THE ACCELERATION OF THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE

* Alain Blanchard, Université de Toulouse, France.
* Thomas Buchert, Centre de Récherche Astrophysique de Lyon, France
* Alejandro Clocchiatti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile.
* Marina Cortés, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
* Roberto Sussman, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
* Victor Toth, Perimeter Institute, Canada.
* David Wiltshire, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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